What about those games that you cherish, that never really took off? Like postman pat 1 'n' 2, they were awesome

back on my 8088 XT, I really dug F19 Stealth Fighter and M1 Tank Platoon. Those games so totally rocked... though with F19 you practically had to have a PhD to fly it (and especially land it). Still, it was a great game... I remember one time I just got a wild hair up my butt and decided to go on a killing spree in Kamchatka. That's basically a Russian peninsula just covered with airbases, submarine pens, and SAM sites. I blew the crap out of everything... used up all my missiles and then was strafing friggin' SAM sites with my runs, blowing up radars and missiles. I actually managed to land (with a really badly mauled plane) and got a medal of honor for it. Only time I ever got that medal. I wish someone would update that game for modern hardware... it would so rock.

lol, sounds like a good load of fun, the closest I had was Harrier, and 2 versions of 1942, one of which was an early flight sim,that was awesome, but I lost it... you could shoot down parachuters and bombs and alsorts...

Air Attack. Not quite a plane sim, but damn fun!

Did thems old systems have any true RPG's? I mean, There were the text games, that were mildly amusing, but mostly anoying, and then they werent really RPG's

nah, there weren't any serious RPGs. There were some D&D type games, but I didn't get into RPGs until a couple years ago. I was mainly a sim junky back then.

of course, sim = 8 colours, if that and about three posible positions to be stood/rotated. four if you were lucky.

eh? I mean simulations, like tank games and airplane games and submarine games. Oooh! Sid Myer's Pirates! That was an awesome game. Of course, it doesn't really fit in this topic, since most everyone that ever played it agrees that the game totally rocks. Ah well.

Dude, I knew what you meant, But What I meant is that a sim, is supposed to be as close to real life as you can get, it is supposed to simulate real life.

But they only had 8 colours, and about 3 different Charachter possitions to simulate with. Geddit?

well, ok, I get the 8 colors. 3 different character positions? Hmmm...ok, I'll just smile and nod.

*smile*
*nod*

ok... you know... hmm.. the sprites in things like doom? like that, except they can be in more than 8 positions.

Yeah the pirates game was cool. Unfortunately, i always ended up with a crew that went traitors on me. I couldnt find ships fast enough to loot and on my current compu the game runs so fast i can hardly see the ship

Anyone ever played pipemania? that ruled!

Maybe, is it a Mickey Mouse game?

mmmm probably not.

Peltz dunno if you're familiar with it, but there is a program or something that allows you to play old games that run too fast on your computer. i just ran into it while surfing once, dunno the name anymore but can't be that hard to find if you're interested.